Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Ken LAI <>]

I understand the difficulty to make a generic web service to be
useful.  I suppose you can consider DSML

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_Service_Markup_Language

which is standard and LDAP-based.  My idea is that any generic web
service will serve my needs as I can connect it to a ESB and do the
message transformation.  The endpoint can be file, jdbc, jndi or
another web service.

Regards,
-Ken

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Chris Hyzer 
<>
 wrote:
> There is no plan for that.  We do have plans to discuss exposing some 
> Grouper web service operations to search and potentially manage subjects...
>
> Anyways, for having a builtin subject source which uses web services, it 
> sounds like it would be difficult to make that generic.  Each web service 
> subject source might have a much different API.  I would just make your own 
> subject source which implements edu.internet2.middleware.subject.Source and 
> acts as a web service client.  If you need help coding this, let me know.  
> If we find out it is generic and useful to people, we can add it in.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ken LAI 
>> [mailto:]
>> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:27 PM
>> To: Grouper Users
>> Subject: [grouper-users] web service as source of Subject API
>>
>> Currently, the source of Subject API only supports Jdbc and Jndi.  Do
>> you have any plan to add web service as one source of Subject API?
>> This gives more flexibility of various sources which only interfaces
>> with web service.
>>
>> -Ken
>